Urgent Care ACP - Bank

Are you an ACP working in North Yorkshire and looking for a new challenge?

Join our Urgent Care Team!

Nimbuscare is looking for experienced and enthusiastic clinicians to join our growing urgent care team. We are a clinically-led organisation committed to innovation, collaboration, and delivering care that puts people first.

Applications for this role will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, and we reserve the right to close the advert once sufficient applications have been received.

Email applications will not be accepted, in order to ensure fairness and consistency throughout the recruitment process.

Please note that sponsorship is not available for this role.

Interviews will be conducted remotely, and candidates will be notified of the arrangements in advance.

Agencies need not reach out.

Job description

Clinical responsibilities:

Autonomously assess, differentially diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate individual treatment plans, interventions, and care packages for patients, ensuring safe and appropriate management, timely referrals, and safety netting as required.

Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team (MDT) to expedite safe and timely triage consultations, interventions, and reviews.

Prescribe independently (where legally permitted), review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, and ensure treatment is tailored to patient needs, adhering to contraindications, drug interactions, evidence-based practice, national and practice protocols, and within scope of practice to optimize outcomes.

Prioritise and manage personal and team workloads, embedding effective time-management strategies within the team culture.

Provide clinical leadership in line with the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework, ensuring clear alignment with company values, strategic direction, and policies impacting care delivery.

Maintain effective communication within the MDT and with wider stakeholders, ensuring active participation with senior team members and facilitating clear communication across roles.

Communicate independently with external stakeholders and agencies to ensure continuous, high-quality care during both admission and discharge.

Support patients and families receiving "bad news," engaging the team as needed to provide appropriate emotional support.

Act as an advocate for patients and colleagues, ensuring needs and concerns are effectively represented.

Collaborate with clinical teams to improve healthcare quality, responding to local and national policies and initiatives, and assessing impact on service delivery.

Take responsibility for personal learning and professional development, promoting the Advanced Clinical Practitioner strategy, and maintaining a personal professional portfolio to demonstrate ongoing growth.

Partner with the Advanced Practice Lead to develop and implement the workforce strategy for Nimbuscare.

Provide expert support to practitioners, nursing staff, therapists, and students within the service.

While the ACP role is independent, senior support is always available as and when needed.

Responsible for assessing ongoing care needs and planning effective transitions, ensuring continuity and quality of care.

Ensure clear communication of care plans to the team, fostering collaboration and consistency.

Operate diagnostic equipment to monitor and assess patients, ensuring accurate readings for informed clinical decisions.

Identify and report faulty equipment, ensuring it is removed from clinical areas for repair to maintain safety.

Completion of event report forms when indicated

Other responsibilities:

Ensure that medical and patient records are comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date.

Complete relevant coding forms accurately, providing a clear explanation of the patients condition and treatment plan.

Take responsibility for maintaining accurate and timely documentation of patient care, including information for referral purposes.

Ensure the proper completion of ReSPECT forms and advanced care planning, tailored to the patients level of frailty, clinical condition, co-morbidities and wishes.

Accurately document all discussions regarding care, ensuring that conversations with the patient and family members are properly recorded and discussed as appropriate.

Report any events via the Nimbuscare reporting system

Person specification

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Ability to independently problem-solve, analyse, compare, and interpret complex information before making decisions. Ability to present information to individuals and groups using appropriate resources. Demonstrates excellent interpersonal skills. Demonstrates effective team management. Prioritises clinical workload and assesses associated risks, taking appropriate action. Demonstrates strong organisational skills. IT skills, use of S1, CPD Ability to present to groups of professionals at local, regional, and national levels. Negotiation skills Ability to lead and influence while advancing Nimbuscare's advanced practice strategy

Desirable

• Has already presented at a conference, regional or national event

Experience

Essential

• Extensive clinical experience in speciality Has led audit and research within the service. Can manage a highly complex caseload. Has led service improvement. Able to independently refer to other members of the MDT.

Desirable

• In a role within the service that directly supports enhanced and advanced practice. Experience in one of the four pillars of ACP at an advanced level. Experience as a principal investigator in research. Led service improvement initiatives.

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Professional knowledge acquired through a recognised qualification, enabling registration with a healthcare regulatory body. Supplemented by significant post-registration experience and specialist knowledge in the clinical area. Management skills gained through theoretical knowledge and/or significant practical experience. Strong leadership skills. IT literate. Knowledge of Nimbuscare values. Contribution to policy development. Good understanding of advanced and enhanced practice strategies and policies. Ability to autonomously problem-solve, analyse, compare, and interpret complex information before making decisions. Experience in mentoring and developing staff. Proven ability to lead research and implement service changes/improvements.

Desirable

• Additional teaching qualifications/experience Participation in audit, research, or service evaluation Understanding of the strategic vision for Nimbuscare Awareness of the NHS England Consultant Practitioner Capability and Impact Framework Willingness to undertake a PhD. Experience as a principal investigator

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered healthcare professional MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice or digital badge from a supported advanced practice portfolio, or equivalent. Completed a portfolio of professional development that demonstrates an advanced level of clinical practice in line with the HEE (2017) framework for ACP. Independent non-medical prescribing. Basic Life Support (BLS). Clinical Skills Level 7. Formal research module completed at Level 7 (Masters level) or equivalent, e.g., supported portfolio and digital badge. Will work towards and complete any relevant credentialing routes available and applicable to the clinical area. Minor Illness qualification or equivalent. Paediatric clinical skills or equivalent

Desirable

• ALS Provider/Instructor Intermediate Life Support (ILS) Principal Research Investigator Leadership module or qualification Digital badge in advanced clinical practice.

About the employer

Who are we?

Nimbuscare is a not-for-profit, socially driven organisation within the NHS family. Were collaborative, agile and innovative at our core, working with partners across the system to remove complexity, inspire trust and create person-centred solutions that make healthcare better for everyone.

What we do?

We work towards making a complex system simpler. Creating better, more seamless care closer to home.

How we do it?

By collaborating closely with GP Members, Patient Safety Partners and wider health and care organisations, combining shared insight and expertise to improve outcomes for local people.

As a Disability Confident Committed employer disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for this job are guaranteed an interview.